the Masalai blog (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
This is a closed workshop but sounds like some interesting discussions to be had. Wish they could do these workshops in PNG. The organisers are Dr Jason Potts, Dr Susan Cochrane, Mr Deveni Temu, Ms Carol Cooper. The one-day workshop will investigate the unrealised potential in the cultural capital created by Papua New Guinea (PNG) artists and [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
The race that stops a nation is not the 4.15 at Aintree , run on a Saturday in April, or the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe each October, or even one of the Kentucky or Epsom Derbys, but the Melbourne Cup . This Australian institution, won yesterday by local horse Shocking, just ahead of a raider from Britain, Crime Scene, dominates national life when it starts at 3pm at Flemington racecourse. "Nowhere...
Courrier Mail (Free subscription) | 09/14/2009
THE National Museum has rejected an offer by Kevin Rudd's friend, car dealer John Grant, to place the ute of "utegate" fame in its permanent collection.
Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
A 35-square-metre land title deed is unfurled on the floor of the National Museum of Australia in Canberra.
The Age (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
A 35-square-metre land title deed is unfurled on the floor of the National Museum of Australia in Canberra.
Tax cuts will go ahead: Rudd (Free subscription) | 08/31/2009
THE prime minister's infamous ute is to embark on a public road trip before possibly being enshrined in a museum.
Mission & Justice (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
Ashleigh Wilson; 30/6/09 For years it remained in storage in an American museum, with no documentation and few clues about its meaning. Then experts realised the significance of the object: a carved piece of stone, less than 1m in length, used for Aboriginal ceremonies in central Australia, and not to be seen by women, children or [...]
The Age (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
A museum in the United States has returned a sacred Aboriginal artefact to Australia.
gmtPlus9 (-15) (Free subscription) | 06/12/2009
Oscar's Sketchbook at the National Museum of Australia, Canberra. "...When staff from the National Museum of Australia began cataloguing its collections in the early 1980s, they came across a cardboard box containing items once owned by the Institute of Anatomy. At the bottom of this box lay an old exercise book labelled 'Drawn by Oscar'. The sketches found inside were depictions of a young Aboriginal...
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 05/12/2009
A SET of ancient Aboriginal remains found during a clearout of a house in northern England are soon to be returned to Australia.
Jacky Winter News (Free subscription) | 05/12/2009
Matt Davidson has some illustrations on display at the Behind the Lines exhibition currently at City Museum (Old Treasury building) on Spring Street, Melbourne, until May 17. Cast a vote for your favourite cartoon and help decide who will win the annual People’s Choice award. Behind the Lines - the year's best cartoon 2008 is a national [...]
iTWire - Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 04/22/2009
IT services provider ASG Group has secured a three-year, $8 million contract with Australia’s civil aviation regulator, the Civil Aviation Authority(CASA) to provide ICT managed services support.
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 02/17/2009
We went into town to have breakfast as we had seen a pancake parlour and it had to be visited... Chris had a canadian pancake apples and cream and i had a traditional 3 tier with maple syrup and icecream YUM We walked to Lake Burley Griffin and round to the National Museum of Australia. It opened in 2001 and became an architectural landmark. It's unique deseign was inspired by a jigsaw puzz
iTWire - Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 01/29/2009
IT services provider ASG Group has secured new contracts with a total value of approximately $30 million.
On Line Opinion - Latest Articles (Free subscription) | 01/27/2009
Herbert Basedow's photographs were recently exhibited by the National Museum of Australia. He was a man of enormous ambition and curiosity.
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